Church Fair Prices

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I am organising the kitchen for our church fair for the first time. Do people think these prices are reasonable or not? For context, in the south of England, mixed area, some wealth, some poverty:
Bacon/ Sausage/ Veggie Sausage Sandwich: £2.50
Tea : £1.00
Coffee: £1.50 (Filter)
Squash: £0.50
YABU: Your prices are too much for a fair
YANBU: Your prices seem reasonable to me

I'd charge the same for tea & coffee. £1 and it's still a big mark up

The church events I've been too have all had cheaper prices than those.
You can get a sandwich and drinks meal deal for less than £5 in cafes (£2.70 in Greggs)
I think prices for church events need to be as cheap as possible so as to be as inclusive as possible.
I'd go for a donation box as then people can pay what they can. Works well at the local gallery and church near to me.

In my experience people flipping love a nice bacon or sausage sarnie. Especially the stallholders. It's always really disappointing to find just biscuits and some Mr Kiplings on offer.
I'm surprised that so many people seem to think that eating and drinking is an essential part of visiting a church fair. Does it come from the same mentality as the constant offering of snacks? Most times I visit something like this I look around and leave. Anyway, if adults can get a cuppa for £1 surely that's fine? They can eat at home.
Op - the only thing I'd change maybe is to put out jugs of water for people to help themselves. Then you can't be accused of failing to give people something to drink.

Our church charges £1 for either coffee or tea and 50p for squash. 50p for cupcake or slice of cake. Most people do give more eg 2 hot drinks and 2 cupcakes will give £5, but it means those who don't have much spare cash can join in too. Also DC often buy a cake.

50p a slice wouldn't cover the ingredients and fuel for baking, I imagine. This baker breaks down what the ingredients cost but doesn't include the fuel. It's quite interesting.

http://shewhobakes.co.uk/budget-vs-premium-baking-victoria-sponge/

That sounds perfect, similar prices to the ones around here(mixed demographic, Yorkshire).

It's a fundraising event. The aim is to make money.

What's the point otherwise? Churches still money to operate. GIving away tea/coffee/bacon sarnies at a loss in the name of "inclusivity" would entirely defeat the point.

Greggs etc can afford to do those deals because they run at scale.

Agreed. There were grumblings when our school PTA sold all the cakes at 50p, lots of people saying it wouldn't cover their ingredients. And this was 8ish years ago.

They are donating the ingredients anyway but it sticks in the throat a little if the church ends up with less than if they 'd just donated the cash and not bothered to make the cakes.

Hi All. I wanted to say thank you to all who have commented and provide some feedback which will hopefully help others for their own events:
£2.50 for Bacon/Sausage/Veggie Sausage Sandwiches- a few people buying told me they thought we were undercharging, we will review next year.
Tea £1.00/ Coffee £1.50- this caused a lot of confusion and I would be inclined to charge the same amount next time.
Squash £0.50- this caused more annoyance to parents than anything- next time I would either offer it free, or free with any food purchase. Cheap squash goes a long way after all!

Thanks for the update OP. Sounds really successful.

Everything you've just written will be really useful info for whoever runs it next time.

We had Christmas Fayre last week.
Tea or coffee, a scone with jam and cream and a biscuit was £1.00!
I was amazed, told it had always been £1.